How to Save Nearly $700 on Your Next Artec Battery
· 2 minThere once was a company with an Artec 3D scanner whose very expensive batteries kept dying.
It led to a whole fight in the company about who was responsible for this, whether to keep buying new batteries at $800 a pop or find cheaper scanners, if they should push the sales rep harder for comped replacements, etc. People nearly got fired over the batteries breaking all the time!
In the end, this is just about getting power to the device. As long as the Voltage matches and the thing delivers enough amps, you should be fine. Artec themselves even explain how to use powerbanks for their scanners, which should work fine for the Artec Eva, Spider, Space Spider, MH, and MHT.
From what I can tell, there is nothing about the Artec branded batteries that makes them superior to other solutions.
I’m not implying Artec simply ordered a bunch of branded powerbanks from some manufacturer and sold them at a hefty markup. I’m just saying I literally cannot see any meaningful difference between their new battery and this nearly identical looking $100 powerbank I found on Amazon:
Well, at least the newer version doesn’t break nearly as often as their old one did. The old one was, for some strange reason, looking identical to a $20 whitelabel powerbank that’s not being produced anymore:
